“Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.”

—  Isidore of Seville, book Etymologiae

Bk. 11, ch. 4, sect. 3; p. 221.
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